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Seth Simons

Check out my Longreads essay about Lorne Michaels

Check out my Longreads essay about Lorne Michaels

I have an essay in Longreads today about Lorne Michaels, Saturday Night Live, and their stranglehold over American comedy. You can read it here. Much of the subject matter will be familiar if you've been reading this newsletter for a while, but I like to think it offers

"Covid is still a big issue that we're all just pretending isn't."

"Covid is still a big issue that we're all just pretending isn't."

💡Attention Humorism paid subscribers! If you got a new credit card while this newsletter was on hiatus, please take a minute to update your payment information. Thank you! Today I’d like to share the first of hopefully many conversations with people working in and around comedy. This one is

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On Fame

💡Attention Humorism paid subscribers! If you got a new credit card while this newsletter was on hiatus, please take a minute to update your payment information. Thank you!Subscribe now This week GQ profiled a fellow named Jake Novak. You may be familiar with his work. Last June he released

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Seeing No Evil

Conceptualizing "network silence."

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Fucked-Up Little Sentences

Upgrade for $6 Like everyone else on the internet, I enjoyed Kyle Gordon’s video “Planet of the Bass,” featuring himself and Audrey Trullinger. I am not remotely acquainted with the genre of music it’s parodying, which I understand to be called Europop or possibly Eurodance (do NOT tell

Joe Pesci in his SNL monologue holding a taped-together picture of the Pope.

A Few Thoughts About Laughter

I had read about but never watched Joe Pesci’s SNL monologue the week after Sinéad O’Connor tore up a photo of the Pope during her set. Well, this week I watched it. “I'll tell you one thing, she was very lucky it wasn't my

Promotional image of Tom Segura, Christina Pazsitzky, and Andrew Tate sitting at microphones.

That Time Tom Segura Did PR for Andrew Tate

When Tate argued that women should be submissive to men, Segura said he was “speaking the gospel.”